ADAPT'S DEMANDS of the Republican House Members on the Super Committee
September 19, 2011
Congressional Republicans, including those on the Super Committee, believe the burden of deficit reduction should only come from spending cuts to critical programs, including Medicaid. They refuse to ask millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share to get our fiscal house in order and reduce the deficit."
A fundamental question needs to be answered: What is fair in such shared sacrifice?
Is a family who is forced to give up their disabled child because Medicaid will no longer provide them with the supports they need the same as a family who will now need to think twice about buying a luxury estate?
Is an elderly woman losing her home and family and being forced into a nursing facility because she can no longer receive Medicaid attendant services the same as an oil company not being able to write off the cost of a private jet.
Is an attendant who just manages to make ends meet losing the income that allows her to care for her family the same as a bank executive paying more taxes on a multi-million dollar bonus?
ADAPT demands that the Congressional House Republicans on the Super Committee agree to:
include a millionaire's tax in the deficit reduction plan to assure that Medicaid beneficiaries do not bear the burden of efforts to address the deficit;maintain the integrity of the Medicaid program by assuring that the funding for Medicaid is not capped and increases proportionate to need;
eliminate Medicaid's institutional bias as a part of the plan to address the deficit; and
provide ADAPT with an opportunity to testify before the entire Super Committee regarding ADAPT's proposals for real Medicaid reform and eliminating the institutional bias in the plan to address the deficit.